CHAPTER 4 Wonderful Things
CHAPTER 4 Wonderful Things CHAPTER 4 Wonderful Things The candle flickered. Air from inside the tomb streamed out through the hole Carter had made, like a last gasp that had been held in tightly for thousands of years. The explorers' lungs filled with the stinking, particle - filled air that had been entombed inside for so many centuries. They coughed hoarsely. Carter held the candle to the hole, to test for poisonous gases. More than once in the past, archaeologists and adventurers had been ov
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CHAPTER 4 Wonderful Things
CHAPTER 4 Wonderful Things
The candle flickered. Air from inside the tomb streamed out through the hole Carter had made,like a last gasp that had been held in tightly for thousands of years.The explorers' lungs filled with the stinking, particle - filled airthat had been entombed inside for so many centuries. They coughed hoarsely.
Carter held the candle to the hole, to test for poisonous gases.More than once in the past, archaeologists and adventurers had been overcome by the foulness of ancient tomb-air.
"I think it's safe," he whispered at last."The chamber can't be filled with rocks, like this corridor was, or the air wouldn't have escaped like that."
"Look inside, my boy," said Carnarvon. "Can you see if the room is very large?"
Carter moved up close to the hole he had made in the wall.Hot air was still flowing from inside. It brushed against his face.The hole was a ragged, black shape. And beyond it...?
Carter took the candle. Carefully, slowly, so as not to put out the flame, he pushed it through the hole.Grit and plaster fragments edged inside his sleeve as his arm slid forward.
